A minimal state, limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified; that any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.
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Citation
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974, preface.
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